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Terror and Fear As Paradigmatic Undercurrents of the Contemporary Society in the Works of Shirley Jackson Terror and Fear as Paradigmatic Undercurrents of the Contemporary Society in the Works of Shirley Jackson Garčević, Karla Master's thesis / Diplomski rad 2018 Degree Grantor / Ustanova koja je dodijelila akademski / stručni stupanj: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Teacher Education / Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Učiteljski fakultet Permanent link / Trajna poveznica: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:147:818119 Rights / Prava: In copyright Download date / Datum preuzimanja: 2021-09-30 Repository / Repozitorij: University of Zagreb Faculty of Teacher Education - Digital repository SVEUČILIŠTE U ZAGREBU UČITELJSKI FAKULTET ODSJEK ZA UČITELJSKE STUDIJE KARLA GARČEVIĆ DIPLOMSKI RAD TERROR AND FEAR AS PARADIGMATIC UNDERCURRENTS OF THE CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY IN THE WORKS OF SHIRLEY JACKSON Zagreb, rujan 2018 SVEUČILIŠTE U ZAGREBU UČITELJSKI FAKULTET ODSJEK ZA UČITELJSKE STUDIJE (Zagreb) DIPLOMSKI RAD Ime i prezime pristupnika: Karla Garčević TEMA DIPLOMSKOG RADA: Terror and Fear as Paradigmatic Undercurrents of the Contemporary Society in the Works of Shirley Jackson MENTOR: doc. dr. sc. Krunoslav Mikulan Zagreb, rujan 2018. CONTENTS SUMMARY 4 SAŽETAK 5 1. Introduction 6 2. Biography 7 2.1.Childhood 7 2.2. Career 8 2.2.1. Janice (1937) 8 2.2.2. The Road Through the Wall and The Lottery (1948) 9 2.2.3. Hangsaman (1951) and The Bird’s Nest (1954) 11 2.2.4. The Sundial (1958) 12 2.2.5. The Haunting of Hill House (1959) 12 2.2.6. We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962) 13 2.2.7. Posthumous publications 14 3. Horror as a genre 15 3.1. The development of the horror genre 15 3.2. Categories of horror 18 4. Terror and fear in Jackson’s books and stories 21 4.1. The human mind as the source of terror 21 4.2. Everyday life as the source of terror 24 4.3. Ambiguity as the source of terror 25 5. The connotative level of Jackson’s characters 27 6. Jackson’s characters as outcasts 32 6.1. Houses – shields from the rest of the world 32 6.2. Anxiety, paranoia and agoraphobia 34 7. Jackson’s books and stories as social commentary 36 7.1. Social conformity 36 7.2. The evil nature of humanity 38 7.3. Motherhood and family 39 7.4. Inferiority of women 41 7.5. Racism 44 8. Conclusion 46 Zahvaljujem mentoru doc.dr.sc. Krunoslavu Mikulanu na pomoći i usmjeravanju u pisanju diplomskog rada. Veliko hvala mojim vjernim prijateljima, Dominiku i Ani, na podršci koju su mi pružili tokom studija. Najveće hvala mojoj majci Ljiljani na motivaciji i vjeri u mene tokom cjelokupnog obrazovanja. SUMMARY In this thesis, feelings of terror and fear as paradigmatic undercurrents of the contemporary society in the works of Shirley Jackson will be explored. The thesis is divided into two main parts: historical background and literary analysis. The first part of the thesis presents Jackson's biography including a timeline of her distinguished novels and short stories. It also explains the development of horror as a genre from Ancient Greece and Rome until today and describes characteristics of different categories of horror. The second part analyses Jackson's novels and short stories in a way that shows Jackson's underlying criticism of the contemporary society and how the society or any social group can have a significant effect on the individual. Moreover, the thesis deals with feelings of terror and fear simultaneously present in the characters and in the reader, and how those negative feelings derive from a troubled human mind infected by social pressure and restraints. Key words: horror, terror, fear, contemporary society 4 SAŽETAK U ovom radu bit će istraženi osjećaji straha i užasa kao karakterističnih naznaka suvremenog društva u djelima Shirley Jackson. Rad je podijeljen na dva glavna dijela: povijesni kontekst i analiza književnih djela. Prvi dio rada donosi biografiju Shirley Jackson uključujući vremenski pregled njenih značajnih romana i kratkih priča. Također opisuje razvoj horora kao književne vrste od antičke Grčke i Rima do danas i značajke različitih kategorija horora kao žanra. Drugi dio rada prikazuje analizu romana i kratkih priča Shirley Jackson kojoj je cilj dokazati prikrivenu kritiku suvremenog društva i kako društvo može imati značajan utjecaj na pojedinca. Nadalje, rad se bavi osjećajima straha i užasa koji su istovremeno prisutni u književnom liku i čitatelju i kako ti osjećaji proizlaze iz poremećenog ljudskog uma pokvarenog društvenim pritiscima i ograničenjima. Ključne riječi: horor, strah, užas, suvremeno društvo 5 1. Introduction Shirley Jackson (December 14, 1916 – August 8, 1965) was an American author mostly acclaimed for her frightening and mysterious works. During her lifetime she wrote six novels, two memoirs and more than 200 short stories. Characters in her books are generally mentally ill or trouble minded women who went through a major trauma in their life. Their mental instability causes instability of their thoughts and actions and by that, the instability of the reader. Human mind is the source of terror and fear that the reader experiences. Jackson criticizes the monotony and dullness of lives in the contemporary society, pointless social norms, and inferiority of women in her time, racism, and most importantly, the evil nature of human mind. Jackson was always fascinated by the evil present in everyone and made it her central theme of all her novels and stories. There is not one of her characters who is purely good-hearted; they all have ulterior motives and dark thoughts. Her books belong to the horror genre because of the dark atmosphere that she creates and the element of shock caused by her characters' madness or delusion. But Jackson did not create her characters only for the sake of causing fear; she made them subtle and subversive commentators of the society. Jackson, who herself suffered from anxiety and depression, related to her characters and justified their mental state with a simple idea - why would a person be sane if the world that they live in is not? 6 2. Biography 2.1. Childhood Shirley Jackson was born on December 14, 1916 in San Francisco and two years later her brother Barry was born. During her early childhood Jackson family often moved until settling in Burlingame, California. Even as a child, Jackson was dedicated to writing. She wrote poems, diaries, stories, school plays and many letters. Any feeling she wanted to express, she wrote down in her diary or on a scratch of paper. When she was 16, she moved again with her parents to Rochester, New York. Despite the fact that Jackson's were a wealthy and privileged family, their old photographs reveal their unnatural demeanor: "The Jacksons were trading a life of comfort and privilege on one coast— country clubs, social teas, garden parties—for a very similar life on the other. But though they were decorated with all the trappings of wealth, the photograph reveals them as ill at ease with one another, their stiff, formal body language radiating anxiety and mistrust." (Franklin, 2016, p. 21) Shirley's childhood was not ideal; her parents were distant - her father Leslie was busy with his work and her mother Geraldine focused on raising Shirley's brother. The reason for her mother's favoritism towards her son was accepting his mother's conventions and ways of life. Shirley was Geraldine's first child and many sources reveal she was not satisfied with how she turned out. Shirley's son, Barry Hyman, once said: “She was just a deeply conventional woman who was horrified by the idea that her daughter was not going to be deeply conventional.” (Franklin, 2016, p.31) Rejection and criticism she constantly received from her mother left Jackson with strong insecurities with which she dealt throughout her adult life. The complicated relationship between Jackson and her mother resulted in the repetitive and almost regular theme in most of Jackson's books and stories - motherhood. Jackson's characters are either motherless or have unloving, critical mothers. Another theme appearing in Jackson's work is racism, which also comes from the attitude of her family. Jackson's parents were racist, just like most of the elite in 1920s. (Ibid. 32) Taking a closer look into Jackson's writing, there is much evidence that Jackson was extremely, if not completely different from her family. She was an outcast in her own home, which is another association with her characters. 7 During her high school and college years, she was often puzzled by the world and the darkness hidden in people surrounding her. In one of her many diaries, she wrote: “I can’t understand this desire— this requirement—to hide true things, and display to the world a suave, untroubled visage. If one is bewildered and unhappy, why not show it, and why will not people explain and comfort? But instead—this pretense at calm satisfaction, where underneath there is all the seething restless desire to be off, away from all this anger at self and others, to where there are other conventions, other thoughts, other passions.” (Jackson, 1934) 2.2.Career 2.2.1. Janice (1937) In 1934, Jackson enrolled the University of Rochester, but she managed to stay there only a year before she was asked to leave. She avoided going to classes and had once said that she could not go because she hated them. It is assumed that around that time Jackson had her first nervous breakdown and tried to kill herself. Time off from college apparently suited Jackson and her mental health was improving. In 1937, she started studying at Syracuse University and published her first story titled Janice about a girl who attempted suicide because she could not go back to college. (Franklin, 2016, p.68) Soon after publishing the story, literary critic Stanley Edgar Hyman was impressed by the story and wanted to meet Jackson.
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